I was born to a single mother. For reasons unknown to me, she didn’t have a good grasp on the concept of parenting. She felt it was...

My name is Dannie. I am 41. A three time suicide attempt survivor. Once with meds and booze and two failed hangings. Two times confined...

Before I was born, my biological father....let's call him Chris, convinced my mother to have her tubes tied. I was not wanted. So she...

Where should I begin? Where indeed. When I was a child, from birth, I was the victim of severe child abuse and neglect. I know you’ve...

Welcome to my story time on the Survivor's Blog. When I was two years old I was tested for autism which came back negative but gave me an...

The figurative impression her scream left on me and its literal counterpart. Yes, this article is particularly graphic. At first, I...

When you suffer with mental health issues, sometimes you can compartmentalise your suffering and naively believe that no one else in the...

My name is Kara and I had a suicide attempt at the age of 18/19. I got in a fight with my bf at the time and he punched a wall breaking...

The moment I heard of my friends passing it was like a pause in a moment of time, the bustling streets were now hollow, the screams of...

Trigger Warning! I recently found out a few months ago I have BPD. But.. Lets back track a few years. 2008, was My first suicide attempt....

I clearly remember the day I thought I was going to die. I was 15, struggling with an eating disorder and depression (which was later...

Approximately 3 1/2 years ago I lost my family. I had a partner and two girls, all of whom within one day had exited my life. Needless to...

Four years ago, I went through a very traumatic divorce. My ex-husband was a serious mental health patient. He was paranoid, delusional,...

The second thing I felt when I woke up after my August 2017 suicide attempt was violent nausea. The first was disappointment....

Just before getting kicked out of an Ivy League university for being a liability, I tried to kill myself. I scared my roommate to pieces...

My relationship with suicide stems right back to my childhood, although this wasn't discovered until my last bout of therapy back in...

The 31st of August 1997 A day that will go down in history as the day the whole planet mourned the death of Princess Diana. The day...

Trigger Warning There have been a lot of high-profile people dying by suicide in the past year or so. Kurt Cobain, Chester Bennington,...

STRONG TRIGGER WARNING! I had suicidal episodes before. But I think the most impressive one is the one I had on December 21st in 2017. It...

As a child, I’d always had suicidal thoughts because of poor body image and low self-esteem, but these were only fleeting thoughts, much...